George W. ����Ӱ��

George W. ����Ӱ��

In accordance with an agreement between the Office of George W. ����Ӱ�� and the Center for Presidential History, we are not publishing the original audio of our interview with President ����Ӱ��, nor the original transcription of the interview. However, we have published excerpts from that interview in the book  (Cornell University Press). 

Below, you may watch President ����Ӱ��'s address to the nation on January 10, 2007, when he announced what would become known as The Surge.

Click Here to download a transcription of this address announcing the Surge.

Biographical Note:

George W. ����Ӱ�� served as president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Prior to this, ����Ӱ�� served as the Governor of Texas (1995-2000). During his State of the Union address in January 2002, ����Ӱ�� labeled Iraq as part of an "axis of evil" that posed a threat to the world, particularly because of the claim that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. In March 2003, ����Ӱ�� ordered the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the American-led military invasion of Iraq, aimed at accomplishing multiple objectives, including removing Saddam Hussein from power, eliminating weapons of mass destruction, driving out terrorism, and creating conditions for a transition to representative self-government for the Iraqi people. By 2006, conditions in Iraq remained volatile and violent, prompting President ����Ӱ�� to embark upon a decision-making process which would lead to his January 2007 announcement to surge forces in Iraq as a strategy for victory.